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Fine National Political Traditions of 'Ratn1adaw PROPAGANDA ANALYSIS OF THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR MAYKYAWOO ID: 5019427 ASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY BANGKOK, THAILAND. NOVEMBER 2009 PROPAGANDA ANALYSIS OF THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR MAYKYAWOO ID: 50194527 A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ARTS IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURES MA-ELL GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ENGLISH (GSE) ASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY BANGKOK, THAILAND NOVEMBER 2009 Thesis Title PROP AGANDA ANALYSIS OF THE NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Name Ms. May Kyaw 00 Advisor Dr.Katarzyna Anna Ancuta Academic Year November 2009 The Graduate School of Assumption University has approved this final report of the twelve-credit course, EL 7000 Thesis, submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts (EL TIELL) Approval Committee: (Dr.Katarzyna Anna Ancuta) (Asso~f.D~ Subaneg) Advisor External Examiner (Dr. Ste})heilCOilfon) Chairman PLAGIARISM STATEMENT I hereby certify that all materials in this thesis which is not my own work has been identified and acknowledged, and that no material is included for which a degree has already been conferred upon me. MayKyawOo Date: of/12 /ocr Table of Contents Page No. Acknowledgements 11 Abstract 111 List of Tables IV List of Figures v Introduction Chapter 1: Domestic News 5 Referendum for the New Constitution 7 The Cyclone Nargis 16 The Tainted Milk Issue 20 The Saffron Revolution 23 Editorial Article Titles 28 Slogans, Exhortations and Advertisements 31 Chapter 2: News Concerning the International Community 36 United States of America 37 North Korea 45 China 47 Comparative Analysis of Media Bias 50 Chapter 3: Propaganda Analysis 60 Conclusion 85 Bibliography 87 Appendices 89 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I am heartily thankful to my supervisor, Dr. Kasia Anucuta, for her support and guidance from the beginning to the end of the thesis. Without her encouragement and effort this thesis would not have been completed. One simply could not wish for a better or friendlier and more inspiring supervisor. I would also like to convey my thanks to Dr. Stephen Conlon for his guidance and lectures on different methods of analyzing and reading texts and also for his invaluable comments and suggestions for this thesis. Lastly, I would like to express my gratitude to everyone essential to finish this thesis, especially the authors of my reference books, Online Burma Library, and my family, involved in supporting me while I was writing the thesis. ii Abstract This thesis, entitled "Propaganda Analysis of The New Light ofMyanmar," examines The New Light of Myanmar, a state-owned newspaper of Myanmar to discuss the possibility of the newspaper being a propaganda tool used by the powerful elite in the country to influence the perceptions of the readers by disseminating selected information which support the propagandists' causes. The thesis follows a Propaganda Model developed in reference to Jowett-O'Donnell's Propaganda Analysis Techniques (Propaganda and Persuasion). The data used in this thesis have been collected from the periodicals printed between January 2006 and August 2009. This thesis argues that the newspaper can be used to influence the majority of people and that by reading a newspaper of a country, we can learn about the status of the freedom of the press in that particular country, the newspaper owner's policies towards other countries and local opposition groups, the newspaper's expectations and presumptions of the readers, and its objective of being a newspaper, that is, whether its purpose is to serve the reader by giving them relevant and useful news or whether it is used it solely as a powerful information disseminator presenting carefully chosen information or misleading information to control the audience's understanding of a situation in favor of the powerful elite or, in other words, the propagandist. iii List of Tables No. Name of Table Page No. Weather reports before and after the Nargis cyclone. 18 1. 2. Frequency of editorial articles under different categories written 32 during the last four years 3. 34 Slogans and exhortations carried by The New Light ofMyanmar List of headlines concerned with the United States (The New Light 4. 55 ofMyanmar, January 2008) 5. List of headlines concerned with China (The New Light of 57 Myanmar, January 2008) 6. List of headlines concerned with North Korea (The New Light of 58 Myanmar, January 2008) List of headlines concerned with countries, such as Thailand, 7. 60 Vietnam, British, Pakistan, Germany, Iran, Brazil, etc. (The New Light ofMyanmar, January 2008) iv List of Figures No. Name of Figure Page No. 10 1. Vote "YES" slogan from 1 May 2008, NLM Another kind of slogan to support the Constitution from 1 May 2. 11 2008, NLM 3. A cartoon to support the referendum from 2 May 2008, NLM 11 4. A poem to support the Constitution from 2 May 2008, NLM 11 An announcement refusing to postpone the referendum due to the 5. 12 national tragedy 6. An announcement related to the referendum 12 7. An announcement made for the dates of the referendum according 13 to regions 8. Vote "YES" announcement 13 9. Another Vote "Yes" announcement 14 10. A cartoon depicting all ethnics marching for the same destination 14 11. Referendum results announcement 16 12. Referendum results announcement with percentages 16 The headline and pictures showing the soldiers helping to clear the 13. 20 roads after Nargis (5 May 2008) 14. Notification concerning milk contamination 24 One of the common, ifrare advertisements in The New Light of 15. 36 Myanmar Another usual, if rare type of advertisement found in The New 16. 36 Light ofMyanmar A cartoon found in The New Light ofMyanmar on January 2, 2007 17. 42 (page 7) 18. A cartoon found in The New Light ofMyanmar on January 2, 2008 43 19. A cartoon found in The New Light ofMyanmar on January 3, 2008 43 v 20. A cartoon found in The New Light ofMyanmar on January 9, 2009 44 The headline for the editorial article which appeared on 27 March 21. 68 2006 Tables shown in the articles written in The New Light ofMyanmar 22. 74 on 27 March 2009 and 2008 One of the many slogans included everyday in The New Light of 23. 77 Myanmar 24. One of the slogans which appears on some days in The New Light 81 ofMyanmar (26 February 2008) 25. A headline of an editorial article in The New Light of Myanmar on 81 21 November 2007 26. A testimonial made against Daw Aung San Suu Kyi on 15 Nov 81 2007 27. Another opposing testimonial by supposedly the Shan State 82 delegates (The New Light ofMyanmar 25 Nov 2007) vi Chapter (1): Introduction The first issue of a newspaper in Burma was published on 3 March, 1836. The newspaper in question was The Moulmein Chronicle. It was also the first English newspaper to be published in Burma. It was published by American missionaries with the aim of educating the Burmese people who were under British rule at that time. Seven years after publishing The Moulmein Chronicle, Burma had the first Burmese language newspaper, The Religi.ous Herald. It was also produced by the missionaries with the aim of spreading Christianity. Apart from being published in the Burmese language, that newspaper was printed in Karen, the language of one of the major ethnic groups in Burma. After the emergence of The Moulmein Chronicle, many other newspapers appeared in print in the territories which were under British. Some of those whose records can be found include The Rangoon Daily Mail, Moulmein Free Press, Daily Review, British Burma Review, Advertiser, Bassein News, Arakan News, Pegu Gazette, and The Rangoon Times. Although numerous newspapers were printed at that time, they were usually short-lived and lasted for not more than one year on the average, because of the ongoing wars between the British and the Burmese monarchy. In 1874, Burmese King Min Don started the first official newspaper to be produced under Burmese rule, The Mandalay Gazette. After 1885 when Burma lost her independence, both Burmese and English language newspapers appeared under different newspaper press owners but they were all short-lived as the times then were turbulent and the owners would frequently leave or sell the newspapers to others. The period after independence also [1] produced a substantial amount of newspapers but they did not last long and went through name changes under different governments. As a result, at present there are two official newspapers in Burma, The New Light of Myanmar and Kyemon (The Mirror). Both newspapers are produced in Burmese and English at the same time. Although they are different newspapers, the contents of the newspapers remain very similar from the headlines to the editorial articles, which is the reason why only The New Light ofMyanmar has been chosen for analysis in this thesis. Looking back at those old newspapers can be an interesting way to study history other than reading history books. Patterns can be found concerning the newspapers' choices and omissions of news items. These newspapers also bear witness to the evolution of language and people at the same time. Official newspapers produced by governments can serve as their mouth-piece which relays their perceptions of the world and from reading these we can see how the governments wish to present themselves to the world. At any period in history, newspapers serve as an information provider to the mass public and because of this power to reach out to a large amount of people who want information, newspapers can sometimes be used as a tool by a powerful elite group to disseminate information to the readers which will benefit them more than it does the readers. The term "powerful elite" used here can represent several groups: the newspaper's owner, the government that can control what the newspaper writes about, and the advertisement companies that also have their preferences.
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